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Only in hindsight does Hillary's run look plausible. New York has a 2 million-voter Democratic advantage; there would be Gore's coattails and Lieberman to bring out the Jewish vote. At the beginning there were obvious drawbacks. Surely a sitting First Lady wouldn't abandon the White House for a place in the suburbs of Westchester County to run for office in a state she had only visited. New York is celebrity friendly, but her fame ran more to Evita than Mother Teresa in a co-presidency of more failures than triumphs. Before impeachment, Hillary...
...Dallas Morning News is a craggy, lanky Texan who wears Wranglers and cowboy boots and patterned shirts with open necks. With the help of a colleague, Attlesey had come up with a question for Bush about his possible past drug use that would force the Governor to abandon his stock reply: that when he was young and irresponsible, he was young and irresponsible, and he would not catalog his past indiscretions...
...board early," says a Gore adviser. "Not get bogged down in big, ponderous packages." The patients' bill of rights is a prime candidate, since it failed last time by a single vote in the Senate. But on most other issues, achieving bipartisan compromise would require that Gore abandon key campaign promises. Take his plan for a prescription-drug benefit under Medicare, an issue he would probably press early. Candidate Gore called for a universal entitlement; President Gore could never get that passed. As for campaign-finance reform, money for school construction, class-size reduction, universal preschool or tax-free retirement...
This is why we can expect pressure for reform--specifically a renewed demand to abandon the Electoral College in favor of direct, popular-vote election of the President, which would require a constitutional amendment. This is what got attention but then failed on Capitol Hill after George Wallace's third-party strength in 1968 almost blocked an Electoral College majority...
...granddaughter of Ben Hill Griffin, a citrus magnate who was active in state politics, Harris grew up in the lap of luxury, and continues, according to many reports, to spend money - including taxpayers' money - with abandon. Since taking her current office in 1998, Harris, 43, has amassed more than $100,000 in travel bills, far more than any other statewide elected official; the trips were primarily "networking" and trade meetings overseas...